Home › Words › A › antoecianantoecian/ænˈtiːʃən/antoecian means of or belonging to the point on the globe of the same longitude but the opposite latitude.antoecian is pronounced /ænˈtiːʃən/.EtymologyFrom antoeci + -an.adjOf or belonging to the point on the globe of the same longitude but the opposite latitude.nounA person inhabiting to the point on the globe of the same longitude but the opposite latitude.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.antoeci 75% match — The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero. vs antoecian →perioecus 71% match — Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis. vs antoecian →antichthones 70% match — Those peoples who inhabit the antipodes, regions on opposite sides of the Earth. vs antoecian →antiscian 68% match — One of the inhabitants of the Earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. vs antoecian →antipodean 66% match — Diametrically opposed. vs antoecian →antichthon 61% match — A hypothetical Earth on the opposite side of the Sun. vs antoecian →amphiscian 61% match — That lives in the tropics (and thus casts shadows northward and southward at different times of the year). vs antoecian →heteroscian 59% match — A person or object that is located in the temperate zones (i.e., between the polar regions and the tropics), whose shadow thus does not change its north-south direction over the course of the year. vs antoecian →